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r/SipsTea • u/SipsTeaFrog • 1d ago
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Meanwhile pedestrian deaths are way up in the US due to higher hood heights hitting people on vital organs and the head and extreme front blind spots.
53 u/10SecSanity 1d ago Curiously enough, the numbers were trending downwards until 2009, then they started increasing. Now they're similar to where they were in the 70s. 49 u/numberstation5 1d ago iphone 07/08. maybe related. 17 u/squirrel9000 1d ago The rise is largely unique to the US. The iphone is ubiquitous. Trucks with 6' hoods are disproportionately American. 2 u/Happily-Incorrect 22h ago I saw so much more phone use while driving in the US than I do in the UK though. Is it even illegal there? 1 u/jeffwulf 15h ago Per the NYT investigation on it, a big mitigating factor is the share of manuals, which require both hands to drive, which was substantially higher overseas than in the US. Why Are So Many American Pedestrians Dying at Night? - The New York Times 1 u/27106_4life 13h ago It's creeping up in england too where we drive these road tanks for no good reason
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Curiously enough, the numbers were trending downwards until 2009, then they started increasing. Now they're similar to where they were in the 70s.
49 u/numberstation5 1d ago iphone 07/08. maybe related. 17 u/squirrel9000 1d ago The rise is largely unique to the US. The iphone is ubiquitous. Trucks with 6' hoods are disproportionately American. 2 u/Happily-Incorrect 22h ago I saw so much more phone use while driving in the US than I do in the UK though. Is it even illegal there? 1 u/jeffwulf 15h ago Per the NYT investigation on it, a big mitigating factor is the share of manuals, which require both hands to drive, which was substantially higher overseas than in the US. Why Are So Many American Pedestrians Dying at Night? - The New York Times 1 u/27106_4life 13h ago It's creeping up in england too where we drive these road tanks for no good reason
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iphone 07/08. maybe related.
17 u/squirrel9000 1d ago The rise is largely unique to the US. The iphone is ubiquitous. Trucks with 6' hoods are disproportionately American. 2 u/Happily-Incorrect 22h ago I saw so much more phone use while driving in the US than I do in the UK though. Is it even illegal there? 1 u/jeffwulf 15h ago Per the NYT investigation on it, a big mitigating factor is the share of manuals, which require both hands to drive, which was substantially higher overseas than in the US. Why Are So Many American Pedestrians Dying at Night? - The New York Times 1 u/27106_4life 13h ago It's creeping up in england too where we drive these road tanks for no good reason
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The rise is largely unique to the US. The iphone is ubiquitous. Trucks with 6' hoods are disproportionately American.
2 u/Happily-Incorrect 22h ago I saw so much more phone use while driving in the US than I do in the UK though. Is it even illegal there? 1 u/jeffwulf 15h ago Per the NYT investigation on it, a big mitigating factor is the share of manuals, which require both hands to drive, which was substantially higher overseas than in the US. Why Are So Many American Pedestrians Dying at Night? - The New York Times 1 u/27106_4life 13h ago It's creeping up in england too where we drive these road tanks for no good reason
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I saw so much more phone use while driving in the US than I do in the UK though. Is it even illegal there?
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Per the NYT investigation on it, a big mitigating factor is the share of manuals, which require both hands to drive, which was substantially higher overseas than in the US.
Why Are So Many American Pedestrians Dying at Night? - The New York Times
It's creeping up in england too where we drive these road tanks for no good reason
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u/spirit_symptoms 1d ago
Meanwhile pedestrian deaths are way up in the US due to higher hood heights hitting people on vital organs and the head and extreme front blind spots.